Healthy Families is low cost insurance for children and teens. It provides health, dental and vision coverage to children who do not have insurance and do not qualify for free Medi-Cal. Find out if you or your family qualifies for Healthy Families.
California's Office of the Patient Advocate provides quality ratings on Healthy Family plans in California. See Healthy Family Quality Measurements on preventive care for adults, children, and adolescents and mental health care services.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was the name of a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1997,which was administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This program provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income.
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states in for health insurance to families with children. The program was designed with the intent to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.
The program was created under the name Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) by the Social Security Act of 1935 as part of the New Deal; the words "families with" were added to the name in 1960, partly due to concern that the program's rules discouraged marriage. By 1996 spending was $24 billion per year. When adjusted for inflation, the highest spending was in 1976, which exceeded 1996 spending by about 8%.
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